Video SEO plugin changelog

2.0.4

Fixes a bug where the sitemap cache wouldn’t be cleared when saving options.

Changed to the YouTube v3 API, making the YouTube integration work again.

Fixes a bug where the scrollbar wouldn’t get the right color.

2.0.3

March 25th, 2015

Bug fixes

Fixes a bug where the video sitemap could contain wrongly formatted date times.

Fixes an undefined index notice for the $post global that was fired when creating a new product in WooCommerce.

Fixes a bug where title variables weren’t parsed well in the Video Sitemap.

Fixes a bug where the video thumbnails were saved without an extension.

Enhancement

Added 5 new languages: en_GB, es_MX, fr_FR, nl_NL and tr_TR.

2.0.2

Dec 17th, 2014

Bug fixes:

Fix for notice on the snippet preview

Enhancements:

Showing progress bar on re-indexing the video sitemap

2.0.1

Nov 11th, 2014

Bug fixes:

Fixed: Vixxy shortcode/url combi not recognized

Fixed: Missing stylesheet error

Fixed: Limiting issue on sitemap

Enhancements:

Added translations for Persian and Brazilian Portuguese

Removed translations for French, Dutch and Swedish. If you would like to help translate these languages, please sign up at translate.yoast.com!

Improved translations for Danish, German, Hungarian and Italian

2.0

Oct 7th, 2014

Bug fixes:

Fixed: shortcode list would often not be reset properly.

Fixed: escaped shortcodes would still be searched for video.

Fixed: no name shortcode attributes wouldn’t always be recognized.

Fixed: Flickr video detail retrieval was failing, SSL now required.

Fixed: Compatibility issue between support for the JW Player plugin and fitvids.js.

Fixed: only the first shortcode found would be checked to see if it was a video shortcode, then it would fall back to other methods, now all shortcodes are checked until a video shortcode is found. If none is found, it will still fall back to other methods of finding video.

Fixed: small regression where wordpress.tv video details would not always be retrieved.

Fixed: [videopress] shortcode – while supported by plugins – was still not recognized.

1.5.4.2

1.5.4.1

Move loading of the plugin to prio 20, in line with upgrades of the core WordPress SEO plugin.

1.5.4

Enhancements:

Added support for fitvids.js, enable it in the Video SEO settings to make your Youtube / Vimeo / Blip.tv / Viddler / Wistia videos responsive, meaning they’ll become fluid. This might not work with all embed codes, let us know when it doesn’t work for a particular one.

Removed the ping functionality as that’s fixed within the core plugin.

Added code that forces you to update WordPress to 3.4 or higher and the WordPress SEO plugin to 1.4 or higher to use the plugin.

Bugfixes:

Fixed a bug that would prevent the time last modified of the video sitemap to update.

1.5.3

Enhancements:

Improved defaults: now enables all public post-types by default on install.

Option to change the basename of the video sitemap, from video-sitemap.xml to whatever-sitemap.xml by setting theYOAST_VIDEO_SITEMAP_BASENAME constant.

If post meta values are encoded, the plugin now decodes them.

Bugfixes:

No longer override opengraph image when one has already been set.

Add extra newlines before video schema to allow oEmbed to work.

No longer depends on response from Vzaar servers to create sitemap, properly uses the referer to authenticate requests and adds option in settings to add your Vzaar CNAME.

When there’s a post-type with the slug video, the plugin now automatically changes the basename to yoast-video.

No longer print empty <p> for empty description in meta box.

Improve logic whereby “this image” link is shown correctly and only when the video thumb is not overridden.

1.5.2

Enhacements:

Added support for Vzaar video’s, embedded with either iframe, object embed or shortcode through 1 of 2 plugins.

Added TubePress support.

Bugfixes

Wistia.net support added (not just .com).

Fixed bug in parsing youtube_sc shortcodes.

1.5.1

Bugfixes:

Improved activation.

Enhancements:

Add support for titan lightbox.

Prevented some notices.

1.5

Bugfixes:

Make mrss_gallery_lookup public to prevent notices.

Fix some forms of object detection for youtube and others.

Fix detection of

shortcodes.

Enhancements:

Allow deactivation of license key so it can be used on another domain.

Add link to detected thumbnail on video tab.

Changed text-domain from wordpress-seo to yoast-video-seo.

Made sure all the strings are translateable.

Touch up admin sections styling.

i18n:

You can now translate the plugin to your native language should you need a translation, check translate.yoast.com for details.

Changed text-domain from wordpress-seo to yoast-video-seo.

Added .pot file to repository.

Added Dutch translation.

1.4.4

Bugfixes:

Prevent issues with content_width global.

Prevent trying to activate an already activated license.

Prevent a notice for custom fields.

A fix for wistia popover embeds.

New features:

Add PluginBuddy VidEmbed support.

1.4.3

Bugfixes:

Now matches multiple iframes / objects on a page.

Fix several bugs where embeds without quotes around the URL wouldn’t be recognized.

New features:

Added an option to set the content width for your theme if your theme doesn’t set it.

Added support for Sublime video and its official WordPress plugin.

Added SEO & oEmbed support for Animoto.

Added ping for Bing with the video sitemap.

Added a bunch of supported plugins & shortcodes for YouTube embeds.

1.4.2

Bugfixes / Enhancements:

Try to prevent timeout on license validation.

Clean up of a lot of regexes in the plugin.

Prevent relative image URL paths and images set as just ‘h’.

Prevent double output of posts.

Fixed small bug that would prevent youtube URLs with the video ID in a weird place in the URL from working.

Improve Wistia embed support.

Lengthen timeout for video info requests.

New features:

Added support for html5 video elements (d’0h!).

Add support for [vimeo id= and [youtube id= embed codes

Added support for self-hosted videos with just a file URL in custom field. In these cases the featured image is used as thumbnail.

Added generic fallback to post thumbnail image if there is no video thumbnail.

1.3.2

Bugfixes:

Fix XSLT URL issue, for real this time. Sometimes you have to ignore WordPress internals because they are just
plain wrong. This is such a time. The path to the XSL file should now always be correct. Note the word “should”
though.